REGARDING Burnley Council's plan to demolish the large family houses in Rectory Road and nearby streets, it's frightening to know that it does not matter to the council how long a person has lived there, if they own their homes, or even how it would affect
CLITHEROE could have a new sports complex for the next millennium if lottery bosses give a £3 million scheme the go-ahead. Proposals for the scheme will be put under the spotlight today when they are unveiled for the first time at a public meeting in
HEALTH watchdogs are holding a series of "open house" meetings to give the public a say in a hospital closure plan. Burnley Health Trust managers intend to close the day hospital for the elderly at Burnley General Hospital and concentrate the service
BLACKBURN Rovers are looking to take Aberdeen keeper Michael Watt on a month's loan in time for him to figure in the squad against Derby County at Ewood on Saturday. Aberdonian Watt is very experienced and should prove ideal cover for John Filan, who
THE deadline for posting letters for next day delivery is being extended for Royal Mail users in East Lancashire. The new final collection time for first class mail at boxes in Burnley, Nelson, Colne and Barnoldswick is 6.30pm and there are plans to have
CELEBRITY medium James Byrne today hit back at East Lancashire clergy who have branded psychic performers as "emotionally, spiritually and mentally damaging." Hyndburn clergymen have asked the borough council not to include his show in the entertainment
AN East Lancashire man was honoured by the Queen for his bravery in the 1985 Manchester holiday jet disaster. Hero airline purser Arthur Bradbury was awarded a Queen's Gallantry Medal for his courage in the disaster, which claimed 55 lives. Disregarding
ANGRY leisure chiefs called a press conference to quash rumours that a corpse was washed in Nelson's Wavelengths swimming pool. A story was circulating in Nelson that Asian women had hired the pool, drawn the blinds "for religious reasons" and produced
FORMER West Indies Test player Hamish Anthony is Haslingden's sub professional for the Jennings Worsley Cup Final on Sunday. The all-rounder is Littleborough's professional in the Central Lancs League and has played county cricket for Glamorgan and Durham
GLEN CHAPPLE and Richard Green today hit the comeback trail for Lancashire. But instead of leading the attack in the championship game against Warwickshire at Blackpool, the injured pace pair were playing as batsmen for the second team in Middlesex. Both
THE controversial Lancashire Premier League is back on the agenda. As well as the headline-grabbing recommendations for three conferences of six teams in the championship and a new two division one-day competition, the MacLaurin Report unveiled at Lord's
UNFORTUNATELY, while she was on holiday with her family in Dorset, my brother's daughter's canary died. To pacify Claire Louise, who is 11, her father said he would replace the bird with anything of her choice and, so, he was instructed to buy a blue
THE DECLARATION by Dr George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, that Prince Charles would plunge the Church of England into crisis if he remarried is no more than a statement of truth. For, on succeeding to the throne, the Prince of Wales would become
THE Ministry of Defence has reached a settlement with the second of the three foreign firms who bribed civil servant Gordon Foxley to divert ammunition orders away from Royal Ordnance's Blackburn factory. Junghans of Germany has comprehensively apologised
IT has been reported that the latest Lottery cash distribution for 'good causes' is to go to gay and lesbian projects, including a lesbian circus. Whoever singles out the causes the money goes to has no idea of good causes which need it. To give £15,000
WITH reference to Graham Foulds' remarks (Letters, July 22), we can understand how an advertisement for a placement on a positive action training scheme could be misunderstood. May we therefore offer a new words of explanation? The 12 month training position
HOW inappropriate and disrespectful it is of Blackburn's sad council to persist in planting its scrap iron everywhere. The latest piece of junk is in Museum Street, opposite Blackburn's fine museum which does contain some real art. This is the same council
A BATCH of stolen Blackburn Rovers season tickets have been found... after a motorist saw them fall off the back of a van. The ticket books, valued at around £300 each, were stolen from a courier's van while they were being delivered to fans in Darwen
A GRIEVING father told an inquest how a neighbour found the body of his son hanging from a rope in his garage. Anthony Wayne Stanworth, 37, could have been dead for 24 hours before he was discovered last Monday, July 29, at Sellars Fold Farm, Hapton,
A LIFE-SAVING piece of equipment was presented to hospital staff after a major fund-raising push went past its halfway point. The Friends of Pendle Community Hospital, a group of volunteers who raise money to provide equipment, handed over the first of
WHAT is the ordinary supporter to make of the Le Saux affair? Despite the usual - for Blackburn Rovers - denials, he is now on the transfer list. Nevertheless this volte-face is rendered meaningless by the totally unrealistic price put on his head. Because
REGARDING the CIS challenge match between Blackburn Rovers and Aberdeen, as a Rovers' season ticket holder I gladly took the opportunity to make the long journey to the game, to catch a bit of pre-season action and have a look at some of our new signings
HOW convenient that Chancellor Gordon Brown should have handed over the powers to raise interest rates to the Bank of England. Brown and Co thought that they could shirk the responsibility for managing the nation's business affairs. They could see the
A SCHEME to boldly go where no Christmas lights have gone before has captured the imagination of councillors in Nelson. A trial run of a £3,800 'Space Flower' searchlight beam proved so successful that councillors have agreed to invest in one to help
GETTING tough on road-tax dodgers, the government launches a crackdown. Untaxed cars will be clamped in the streets and owners will face fines of up to £1,000, with the final sanction of their car being crushed as scrap metal or sold if it is not retrieved
TEENAGE singer Sandra Blakelidge is set for TV stardom after hitting the right note at a karaoke competition. Sandra, 13, of Clayton Street, Great Harwood, was picked as a finalist in satellite channel Challenge TV's Karaoke Challenge programme after
A FOUR-year-old boy was today having surgery on neck, face and head injuries caused when his uncle's dog went for his throat. Daniel Lord was stroking the Bedlington cross lurcher on the doorstep of his home in Moorland Road, Burnley, when it attacked
TURF MOOR'S promising winger Paul Smith could be out of the game until Christmas. Smith broke his foot in pre-season training and it was initially thought he could be back in contention within a couple of months. But today Burnley fans were rocked by
PATIENT watchdogs in East Lancashire have welcomed Government moves to force health trusts to throw their board meetings open to the public. Health Secretary Frank Dobson has told all NHS trust chairmen he wants immediate action to put the boards at the
BRAVE punters will get the chance to ride on racing camels in an agricultural show's latest attraction. The camels will join the sheep, cattle, horses and dogs on Trawden Recreation Ground for the 10th annual Trawden Show on Sunday. Mary Chipperfield,
